Memorias de investigación
Communications at congresses:
Creating story maps for learning purposes: The Black Death Atlas
Year:2016
Research Areas
  • Cartography,
  • Electronic technology and of the communications,
  • Multimedia educative environment
Information
Abstract
In the current technological context new forms of mapmaking emerge. An increasingly common one produces story maps, maps that are shown with synchronized explanatory text, to visualize events in a spatial context. Story maps could be defined as the explicit display of such spatial and temporal landmarks on the grounds that a story is constructed. In this paper we present a story map oriented to pedagogical purposes. We have compiled an atlas displaying the expansion of the Black Death in Europe between 1346 and 1347, when the largest epidemic outbreak in the History of Europe ravaged the continent. To depict this event, we have used CartoDB, Odyssey and some other Web interactive tools to create eight interactive story maps gathered in an online atlas. The work was made in the frame of an end-of-degree Project (Geomatics Engineering, in Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). By now, it can be found in: http://clarar92.wix.com/atlasdelapestenegra
International
Si
Congress
6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS
960
Place
Albena, Bulgaria
Reviewers
Si
ISBN/ISSN
13140604
10.13140/RG.2.2.33019.92964
Start Date
13/06/2016
End Date
17/06/2016
From page
221
To page
231
6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CARTOGRAPHY AND GIS June, 13-17, 2016 Albena, Bulgaria PROCEEDINGS
Participants
Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Ingeniería de Redes y Servicios Avanzados de Telecomunicación
  • Grupo de Investigación: MERCATOR Tecnologías de la GeoInformación
  • Departamento: Ingeniería Topográfica y Cartografía